We are close to a milestone. Eight days from now will mark the 1,000th day since the federal transportation authorization bill, SAFETEA-LU expired. You can track the progress at Transportation for America's website.

So, I spent most of last night on Design Milk. If you haven't been on it, it's a beautiful site — basically a tumblr for design freaks who want to binge their eyeballs on architecture, interior design, and other gorgeous items.

Tonight at a Gala event in Portland, Ore., local residents will say thank you to one of the nation's most important champions of bicycling: Congressman Earl Blumenauer. Since he arrived on Capitol Hill in 1996, Blumenauer has been one of the strongest congressional leaders on cyclists' rights and bicycle funding. But his 40 years of public service — and visionary support of bicycling — started...

Bill Nesper and I were recently invited to host separate Bicycle Friendly Community workshops in Rockhill, S.C. and Salisbury, Md. If you live and cycle on the east coast, both of these cities should be on your radar.